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愚
愚
Translingual
Han character
愚 (radical 61 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 田月心 (WBP), four-corner 60332, composition ⿱禺心)
References
- KangXi: page 395, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10946
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2321, character 7
- Unihan data for U+611A
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
愚 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 齵 | *ŋoː, *ŋo |
| 偶 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs |
| 耦 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 藕 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 髃 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo |
| 蕅 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 愚 | *ŋo |
| 隅 | *ŋo |
| 禺 | *ŋo, *ŋos |
| 湡 | *ŋo |
| 堣 | *ŋo |
| 嵎 | *ŋo |
| 鰅 | *ŋo, *ŋoŋ |
| 鍝 | *ŋo |
| 遇 | *ŋos |
| 寓 | *ŋos |
| 庽 | *ŋos |
| 媀 | *ŋos |
| 喁 | *ŋoŋ |
| 顒 | *ŋoŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋo) : phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos) + semantic 心 (“heart”) – stupid.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngì
- Min Dong (BUC): ngṳ̀ / kṳ̀
- Min Nan (POJ): gû / gî
- Wu (Wiktionary): nyy (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
- Wade-Giles: yü2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
- IPA (key): /y³⁵/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jyu4
- Yale: yùh
- Cantonese Pinyin: jy4
- IPA (key): /jyː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngì
- Hakka Romanization System: ngiˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngi2
- IPA: /ɲi¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ngṳ̀ / kṳ̀
- IPA (key): /ŋy⁵³/, /kʰy⁵³/
- Note: ngṳ̀ - literary; kṳ̀ - vernacular.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gû
- Tâi-lô: gû
- Phofsit Daibuun: guu
- IPA (Quanzhou): /gu²⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /gu²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /gu²³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /gu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gî
- Tâi-lô: gî
- Phofsit Daibuun: gii
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /gi¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: nyy (T3)
- IPA (key): /ȵy²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 愚 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /y³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /y⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /y⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /y²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /y²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /y⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /y²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /y²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /y⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /y¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /y²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /y²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /y³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /i²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /i³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /y²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /zz̩ʷ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /y¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /y¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /y³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ȵy²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ȵy¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦz̩ʷ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ȵy³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ny⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /y⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /y¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /y¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ŋi¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /ŋi²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /jy²¹/ |
| Nanning | /y²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /jy²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /gu³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /ŋy⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ŋy⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /ŋõ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/zi³¹/ /ŋai³¹/ 訓獃 |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 愚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 虞俱切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ŋɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ŋio/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ŋio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ŋuə̆/ |
| Li Rong |
/ŋio/ |
| Wang Li |
/ŋĭu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ŋi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yú |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 愚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15919 |
| Phonetic component |
禺 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
|
| Old Chinese |
/*ŋo/ |
Definitions
愚
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
愚
- foolish
Readings
Compounds
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Korean
Hanja
愚 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
愚 (ngu)
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